Month: January 2019
Lucky iron fish soup
Today I learned about a fish-shaped iron ingot. You can buy one on Amazon! It was invented as a means of increasing the iron in diets of folks with iron-deficiency and anaemia in Cambodia by a University of Guelph student, and funded through Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). Upon observing that pregnant women in Cambodia…
Security and the Cloud: The need for high bandwidth entropy
Entropy. Its the clutter on your desk, the noise from your fan, the randomness in your life. We spent most of our lives trying to reduce entropy (filing things, sorting, making order from chaos). But what if I told you there is an entropy shortage somewhere near you, and, that you should care? Would you…
Mickey Mouse Arrests DDoS Criminal. 10 years hard time!
Now this is getting somewhere. Earlier I wrote about getting no real punishment for big bad deeds online. Seems the powers that be read the blog with the most 🙂 We’ve got two big sentences here. Mr Daniel Kaye got 3 years for taking down an African mobile carrier (at the behest of their competitor.…
$$$ if you are interested in building a better online Canada?
If you are a charity, not-for-profit, or academic institution, and you have an idea for a project build a better online Canada through infrastructure/access/digital literacy/engagement/services, you should consider applying for funding through CIRA’s Community Investment Program. Grants are usually up to $100K, but this year one grant of up to $250K will be available. Think…
Button down your 2-factor-auth and dnssec lest ye be hijacked
DNSSEC. It helps prevent someone from poisoning a DNS cache or creating a lying recursive. Its simple to enable.
